This sweet potato taco recipe is an old favorite that I wanted to re-share with you. I first started making these tacos years ago, but it’s one of those recipes that I come back to time and time again because it’s such a filling & flavorful vegetarian weeknight dinner option. The list of ingredients is short and the steps are easy – what’s not to love? Plus, I just think roasted sweet potatoes are such a cozy wintertime food, especially when they’re wrapped up into warm tortillas like a big hug.

There are basically two steps to the recipe:

Make the avocado yogurt sauce: Simply blend together Greek yogurt, avocado, garlic, lime juice, salt, and pepper. If you’re vegan, I’ve listed a cashew cream option in the recipe below. Vegan mayo would also be a great substitute for the yogurt. For a more herbaceous sauce, blend in a handful of cilantro. If you like things spicy, consider adding a chunk of jalapeño, to taste. Alternatively, this Creamy Chipotle Sauce would also be delicious on these tacos if you wanted to change things up from time to time.

That’s it! Just assemble the tacos with the sauce, sweet potatoes, and black beans. This time, I topped mine with a few pickled onions. In the past, I’ve topped them with additional diced avocado (see the picture below).

This avo yogurt dip looks great. And yes, I use sweet potatoes a lot to bulk up veg meals as well. They are starchy enough and fiber filled to really do the trick for me and my husband in a number of different meals. Have fun at the Target demo!

Yes, please! These tacos sound so good — sweet potato and black bean are definitely a perfect match, and the avocado just takes it over the top. I think the “filling veg meal” question comes up in part because people don’t understand how to incorporate non-meat forms of protein into their meals (not to mention healthy fats!). Beans and avocado are a perfect solution!

Ooo, looks fantastic! I love the avocado too. Congrats on your new cooking demo’s. I would absolutely LOVE to come down and see you guys. Sadly, we are trapped under 2 feet of snow 🙁 Good luck and big hugs to you both! xo

“Put it in a tortilla” is basically how I get away with feeding my husband all of the random leftovers in our fridge without him catching on. I think I have made almost exactly this recipe (minus the avocado sauce, which will be a welcome addition next time!). Thanks (again and again) for the inspiration!

I’ve been wondering how to use sweet potatoes in some unique way so as to eat them more regularly due to their good nutritional value. This sounds like a great recipe and very filling. I’m definitely going to try this out this weekend. Thanks for sharing it!

They’re perfect! Love the way you styled the tacos too–it’s always so hard to get those little guys to stand up straight and look pretty. Recipe pinned for my next taco night…which will hopefully be very, very soon 🙂

These are AMAZING! I have made them several times since I first tried this recipe a few weeks ago. I have some sweet potatoes reheating for today’s lunch, actually. I didn’t make the sauce, but had some homemade guac, so I used that. Delicious!

One tacos contains about 245 kcal, and almost 10g fat. However, the fat is mostly vegetable (olive, avocado), so it’s good for our health. Additional sauce contains about 70kcal and 5.5 g of fat. If you substitute Greek yogurt with yogurt with reduced fat content, the dish will be less caloric and healthier.

As usual Love and Lemons helps saves the day – or at least teatime! Made these last week as had some cooked sweet potato already cubed plus an advocado in fridge so was quick and easy. As usual the flavours were stunning. The lime juice in the yogurt also helped pull every ingredient together. Used Greek yogurt, is calorific, but far better for us all, than any processed pre-packaged meal. Felt very virtuous. Many thanks.

Hi Jen, I wouldn’t recommend peanuts – instead of the yogurt sauce, I would just make a quick guacamole to put in the taco – mash an avocado with lots of lime juice, salt, pepper and maybe a little chopped fresh cilantro if you have it. Hope that helps!

Made these and they were absolutely delicious! Also, just a little tip…used Trader Joe’s corn and wheat tortillas. They are a little less corn-y for those who don’t really love corn tortillas. Such a great recipe for the vegetarian always trying to find a healthy and satisfying meal!

These were SO dang delicious!! I didn’t have beans and still wanted more protein and filling, so I whipped up cilantro lime quinoa and holy moly was it incredible. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe – definitely a staple in my house now (:

I’m alone this Friday night with a sweet potato at hand. So what else, but I whipped up a couple of these sweet potato and bean taco-burrito thingies… and found them deeply satisfying. I even think my dear carnivorous husband would enjoy them. We will soon find out.

I came across this recipe and thought the picture was lovely. I was hesitant to try it just because the combination of the ingredients. I decided to just make it. I did and I will say I was afraid to try it. Sweet potatoes and avocados just couldn’t make sense in my head. Man oh man. In.cred.ible!! I have now made this so many times and me and everyone else is in love with this. THANK YOU!!! And I bought your book and can’t wait to try more recipes.

These are so good! I’ve made these about five times now because they are easy and so delicious! I’m pretty obsessed with the yogurt avocado sauce and make all the time to dip quesadillas in or put on nachos.

Super yummy! Forgot to take a photo.:{ Cooked Black Beans to me translated into cooking onion garlic and pepper and mashing up the black beans in that. Added some roasted corn to the beans. The avocado lime sauce is delicious, and rounds out the spicy flavors. I used my favorite corn and wheat tortilla from Trader Joe’s to complete this awesome taco! (coated top with a little chili oil and put in toaster oven to warm.)

Love these, very simple and yummy. To make it vegan, I substituted the avocado and avocado yogurt dressing for just guacamole. Also, I fried the sweet potato rather than baked it and it was very crispy.

These were great! I had some sweet potatoes and avocados I needed to use up and then stumbled upon this recipe.
I was afraid of having the sweet potatoes and beans togehter and being starchy, bland. But the avocado yoghurt did the trick, alongside with the scallions.

You have pretty much created a recipes that involves all my favorite foods (okay, well besides oatmeal) and I cannot thank you enough for that. I in general adore all your taco recipes – like that butternut squash one – and they are perfect for a quick yet yummy dinner option. Speaking of, exactly what I need tomorrow 😉 Have a lovely week.